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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires |
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| Year | 1869 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on a light blue-green guilloche underprint, the obverse carries a central vignette of a horse galloping left across an open pampa landscape, flanked by ornate rosettes bearing the numeral '10' at upper left and upper right. A three-quarter-right portrait of a gentleman in a cravat occupies the lower left, while an oval vignette with a classical female figure fills the lower right. The issuer's name 'LA PROVINCIA DE / BUENOS / AYRES' appears in bold letterpress across the top, with the denomination 'DIEZ PESOS' inscribed in the central text panel and a handwritten serial number in red at the lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AYRES Reconoce este Billete por DIEZ PESOS moneda corriente POR EL DIRECTORIO DEL BANCO 10 |
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Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires was one of the most powerful provincial institutions in Argentina's fragmented pre-unification banking period, and by 1869 it was operating under the revised provincial charter that gave it near-monopoly note-issuing authority within Buenos Aires province. The American Bank Note Company in New York handled the printing — a common arrangement for Latin American issuers seeking security printing that domestic facilities could not yet reliably provide.
The PS# prefix in the Pick catalogue places this firmly in the specialized South American provincial issues section. Surviving examples from this 1869 series tend to show heavy circulation wear, consistent with a period when Buenos Aires commerce was expanding rapidly and lower-denomination paper moved briskly through trade.